more powerful battery for desire or switch phones?

Task killers may cause extra battery usage, i dnt use one myself. Try the battery drain and battery pull and charge the phone with it switched off and see if it improves things. For the record i leave data connection on all of the time and still get 30+ hours out of mine
 
Root it, mine went from barely 1 day to lasting 2 days.

Or get an iPhone 4, mine lasts 2 days, some people are getting 3 days with light usage.
 
Are you sure there's not programs still running? I use advanced task killer to kill anything that's not needed.
 
You have something wrong, either a program updating constantly (facebook/twitter every 5 mins maybe?) or your battery is not updating the OS correctly with it's real values. You can correct the latter by doing this (it's HTC approved before people challenge it):

Charge to green light with phone on, pull out charger
Turn phone off, charge charge to green light again, pull out charger
turn phone on, charge to green light
turn off, charge to green light
unplug, Turn on, use phone as normal.

This should reset the battery stats in a nice clean way.
 
I use mine lots... and it lasts the day :) Usually needs charged the same night, or early the next day...

I use lots of facebook, internet, an episode of house on lunch, lots of texts to the gf and usually a wee call at night, 30-45 mins, oh and sometimes when i have a wee mini wait i use the ereader for a bit and make way slowly through some scarpetta books :)

Quite high usage id say

Edit : some google maps too, when i get some new peeps i dunno where they live... but thats just somethimes!
 
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My Nexus One (roughly the same phone) consumes about 5% of battery per hour, so I get just under a day's usage out of it. My battery stats tell me that the screen uses by far the most power, even on half brightness. What do you battery stats say?
 
i can easily get my desire to last 1.5 - 2 days with a fair few phone calls texting and internet browsing, messing around with google maps and gps tracking programs and a few games of speedx 3d.

Browsing the internet is one thing i have noticed that does kill the battery quickly.

All my phone updates like facebook/twitter/rss feeds/weather are all done at the same time every 2 hours, and i have auto brightness turned on. I also use the switch pro widget so i dont leave wifi or gps on when i dont need it.

When i get back to uni though this may change a lot since i will probably use it for music going to and from uni and a few videos as well during lecture breaks.
 
al4x said:
Today went like this..

Was 100% this morning ..played a light wifi game for bout 25 mins, turned off wifi and turned on gprs.. went to work, checked emails and stocks via a gadget.. done that a couple of times before lunch.. so 5 mins use.. used it for bout 45 mins at lunch.. browsing on gprs.. back to work amd. Another 5 mins of use, few texts... nothing more, went to the gym and sent a few texts rhere..

battery at 9%
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Isn't that the issue? Games + wifi drain the battery like nothing else on mine... (30 mins of robodefence + wifi being active took about 50% a few nights back)
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Well I get a good 3 hours play on SNES/GBA emulators with a bluetooth classic pad attached.
 
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Thanks for peoples input :)

I will get the battery pull method and the battery status reset mention this weekend

Surely tho an hour of internet should not destroy a. Smartphone battery? That's crazy!and a lot of people seem to do this fine :)

I only have one auto update program wich is the weather on 3 hours, rest is manual which is annoying

I also have a lot of programs present in taskiller but its not an auto killer.. a lot auto start even if I don't use them.. is a auto killer worth it? I've heard its detrimental?

I've just had a look at battery useage.. this is interesting.. I have 25% left and it says..
42% cell standby..
22% phone idle...
20% Android system
9%wifi
Rest is brightness etc

I have had very light usage today.. hence still being awake now
 
al4x said:
The only thing I can think of is the constant low or no signal at work.. going in and out of it
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It's this.
In low signal areas the phone pumps the transmit power right up and battery life plummets. Not found an app to monitor the numbers directly on Android yet, but when I had my blackberry I could see it in action. At home I'm in a really crap area for signal - I actually end up connecting to a mast 35KM away over the Bristol Channel, which frequently drops in and out!
The result was my blackberry which would be on 90% after 9 hours use at work, would be dead by morning if I forgot to plug it in. There wasn't even a high volume of email traffic.
 
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Ok this seems to be what it is.. maybe use aeroplane mode at work unless I'm in lunch I guess :/
 
Have you tried using advanced task killer, on auto kill every hour. On tthe market people rave that it has tripled the life of the battery. Even if it doesnt help the signal problem, it might at least save some elsewhere, so making it a bit more tolerable.
 
ah thats how auto killers work, set to every hour.. will try that
i have also installed tasker to turn off wifi as soon as i leave home and disable gprs during work and turn it back on during lunch

will have to try other things as this isnt the best way to have to use a smart phone!
 
Do not like that killer.. it doesn't have 75% of my apps so I've made do with taskiller which kills all apps I want on screen close
 
Are you in a low signal area for large parts of the day? That would probably make it eat up battery trying to get you better reception.

Or you could do what I did, get a spare micro usb cable and just leave it at work. I plug my desire into it when I sit down and it just trickle charges it.
 
yep its the signal i think, ive established that 40-50% of the battery life is used for cell signal.. at work i get at most 1-2 bars and most of the time 0 bars.. im at home today and tomorrow so will be able to do a comparison and see the difference.. home signal is fair
 
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